ZAKA rescue services volunteer Aharon Alexander was flown to Israel
from Ukraine in a private plane Wednesday and underwent an emergency
operation for wounds suffered in a brutal attack near a Kiev
synagogue late Saturday night. He is in critical condition.

Alexander, a 25-year-old yeshiva student, was viciously attacked,
apparently by neo-Nazi skinheads. He was rushed to a Kiev hospital.

Ukraine Jewish community president Alexander Levin paid for the
private plane that served as an ambulance, leaving Ukraine after
midnight and arriving at Ben Gurion Airport at 9:30 a.m.

ZAKA volunteers met the plane and rushed Alexander to Ichilov
Hospital in Tel Aviv, where he underwent an operation on his head. He
also suffered severe blows on other parts of his body. The hospital
contributed its services to try to save Alexander.

He is unconscious and is breathing with the help of machines, ZAKA
volunteer Yoel Asman told Arutz Sheva. “We are on call with Alexander
all the time in Kiev, and we are worried about his condition.” Asman
said.

A security camera at Kiev’s central synagogue showed a youth leaving
the building with a knitted kippa. The Jewish community sent out a
search team to look for him after he did not return to his residence
after several hours.

Israel’s ambassador advised media not to jump to conclusions that the
attack on Alexander was anti-Semitic, despite previous concerns from
the Jewish community over skinheads.

"We are confident that the Ukrainian authorities will act swiftly
against the perpetrators of this hate crime and will bring them to
swift justice, European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor said
after the attack.